Re: libxml2 and gnustep-base

[Dennis Leeuw]

Fred Kiefer wrote:
> Dennis Leeuw wrote:
>
> > While building Ocean I came to the conclussion that gnustep-base uses 
> > legacy stuff from libxml2.
> >
> > I built libxml2 2.6.9 with --without-legacy and the build of 
> > gnustep-base crashes on linking gsdoc.
> >
> > I don't know if this is a bug or that people are aware of this, or 
> > intentional. Just thought I let you know, since I guess not many 
> > people use the --without-legacy switch to libxml2.
>
> Would you mind to report the exact error message, so we are able to 
> determine which function are no longer supported? I don't intend to 
> build libxml2 myself, so I probably would never see this problem

Sure no problem, hope this helps:

gcc  -rdynamic       -o shared_obj/autogsdoc \
        ./shared_obj/autogsdoc.o ./shared_obj/AGSParser.o 
./shared_obj/AGSOutput.o ./shared_obj/AGSIndex.o ./shared_obj/AGSHtml.o \
         -L../Source/./shared_obj -L/root/GNUstep/Library/Libraries 
-L//Local/Library/Libraries -L//Network/Library/Libraries 
-L/System/Library/Libraries -L//System/Library/Libraries -lgnustep-base 
-lpthread -lobjc -ldl -lz -lcallback -lavcall -lxml2 -lz -lpthread -lm -lm
../Source/./shared_obj/libgnustep-base.so: undefined reference to 
`getLineNumber'
../Source/./shared_obj/libgnustep-base.so: undefined reference to 
`xmlSetFeature'
../Source/./shared_obj/libgnustep-base.so: undefined reference to 
`xmlGetFeature'
../Source/./shared_obj/libgnustep-base.so: undefined reference to 
`getColumnNumber'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

If you need more information, please let me know.

Happy Stepping,

Dennis Leeuw

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